The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...
Laurel Ann Nattress of AustenProse writes "Affairs of the heart populate episode two with hopes and aspirations for all of the unattached characters in Masterpiece Classic's miniseries of Little ...
Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies it’s good to make them big and long as well. His many-tendriled, twisty plots can be pruned and compressed with some success -- ...
LONDON — Toxic debt, failing financial institutions, lax regulation — ring any bells? As fate would have it, all of the above underpin the BBC’s latest period drama blockbuster, a marathon adaptation ...
When you spend a third of your day with adolescents, you get a close look at social structures--sometimes too close! Although most of my students would scoff at reading 800 pages of nineteenth century ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. Part of ...
Until recently those were our reading options. As with everything else, whether it’s ice cream or television, things are much more complicated now. We are way beyond vanilla and chocolate, way beyond ...